Classroom ManagementA question often asked by parents at information night is how the teaching staff manage and address inappropriate behaviour. Firstly we try to avoid inappropriate behaviour. We do this by using the bible as our guide to LOVE, TEACH, MODEL and CORRECT appropriate behaviours.

LOVELOVE the Lord you God with all you heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Teach these words to your children. Talk about them when you are at home, kindergarten, when you are on the road, when you go to bed and when you wake. (Deuteronomy 6:7 and 11:19)

The Bible says that we are to talk about God’s love each day and in all that we do. At Kindy we do this by first understanding what love is. In 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 the Bible says that love is

Patient

Kind

Truth telling

NOT

Jealous (you are happy for others)

Angry

Boastful

Proud

So we teach these aspects of love to our children through Training, modeling and correction.

TRAIN

Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6)

We Train/Teach the behaviour we desire and expect through:

Routines: picture cues, verbal prompts, transitions, repetition.

Explicit teaching on: (discussion, music, stories, drama)

Saying sorry

Getting help when frustrated or in trouble

Asking nicely with words

Turn Taking

Forgiving

Clear Expectations: communicating, discussion

MODEL

May you yourself be an example to them by doing good works of every kind. Let everything you do reflect your teaching (Titus 2:7)

So we teach these aspects of love to our children through Training, Modelling and Correction.

TRAIN/TEACH: Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)

Teach these words to your children. Talk about them when you are at home, on the road and at home (kindergarten). (Deuteronomy 6:7 and 11:19)

We do this through having regular routines, clear expectations and explicit teaching times on how to say sorry, forgive, take turns, ask nicely and get help (through drama, story, discussion and 1-1guidance)

MODELMay you yourself be an example to them by doing good works of every kind. Let everything you do reflect your teaching. (Titus 2:7)

We model by our daily interactions as a staff and explicitly to the children

At times correction is necessary and we do this through patience, we redirect to another activity, say STOP (give a positive rule reminder, lets talk, move away then talk), we require an action (apology, change the behaviour).